Archive for the ‘Art’ Category

Saint Paul de Vence medieval village, Southeastern France

June 12th, 2010 at 4:04 pm » Comments (7)

Saint Paul de Vence is a fascinating medieval village on the top of a hill in the Southeastern France, not far from Nice. Despite it being such a popular tourist attraction, it still got it’s own medieval atmosphere inside those fortified walls.

As Claudie said: especially because of all the artists who used to stay there, [...]

Vasteras bicycle tour

March 12th, 2010 at 11:37 pm » Comments (5)

At the big town square in the Swedish town Västerås, right in front of the City Hotel “Stadshotellet”, there is a sculpture of workers on bicycles on their way to work. It’s also a great hint of how this town should be explored best by the tourists.

The sculpture was created by the artist B G [...]

Hotel Woodpecker Unusual Treehouse Suite

February 27th, 2010 at 10:34 pm » Comments (8)

There is some very creative hotels even in Sweden and we did a roadtrip to one of them a couple of weeks ago: Hotell Hackspett or in English Hotel Woodpecker, about 40 feet up in an old oak tree in one of the parks in Västerås.

This is a very traditional Swedish red cottage, just placed [...]